How I Got My Permanent Residency In Japan In 4 Years
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It took me 4 years and not 10 to finally get my Permanent Residency (PR) in Japan!
In this video, I walk you through my journey as a foreigner in Japan, trying to build my own startup and business.
00:00 Introduction
00:24 Personal background
01:29 Trying to go full-time
03:10 Japanese points system
05:42 Interview with Google
07:25 Career change & chasing points
10:36 Finally got my PR
12:20 Conclusion
Here's my first video when I quit my job 2 years ago trying to work full-time on my startup but failed 😩:
• Things To Know Before ...
Link to the Highly Skilled Professional visa:
www.isa.go.jp/en/publications...
Points calculation:
www.isa.go.jp/common/uploads/...
My post on LinkedIn when I quit:
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Very insightful! Thank you. I never knew about the point system. That's awesome that you're following your dreams and sticking with a well thought out plan. 💪
Glad you’ve learned something new from this video! Thanks for your words 😁
ほんまにほんまにおめでとう！！！so so happy for you!!!
パー長！サンキュー！hope you’re doing well ! 😃
Congratulations! I'm really happy to hear that you passed first challenge. and I didn't know how difficult to get PR is. Hope Sewayou become huge company!
Appreciate your encouraging words, thanks a lot! Will do everything to make it happen 😀!
You are great !your experience sharing is great!thanks
Great video. thanks for sharing your story mate!
Thanks for watching mate! 🙏
Thanks for the tips philippe I really appreciate it 🙏
Glad it helps, thanks for watching! 😀
Congratz Philippe :) All the best
Congratulations! I’m applying for residency tomorrow so I can launch my own startup. I saw your video previously about the business manager visa, I feel the same way hopefully my PR gets approved so I can launch my company as well. Big congrats though - I bet you’re super excited!
Wow, that's a big leap! Wish you good luck for your PR application tomorrow and congrats on finally getting to your own startup/business exciting path! 😃
did you get your pr?
@@hasansaleem4983 yeah, I’ve been working on my startup for a couple of months now!
really great video!!! super helpful and love hearing about your journey. this is a great moral boost for me as I think about my future life in Japan. you are getting me organized. thank you!!!
Appreciate your comment!
Glad to hear that it helped boost the moral and motivation, since it’s not always easy to challenge yourself in a foreign country!
Wish you all the success in your future endeavors 😀
Thanks for sharing your ideas & congratulation
Oh my goodness, congratulations!
wow, you really motivate us
Glad to hear that! Good luck 👍
this is so inspiring brother
Glad it helps! thanks!
Thank for sharing
Thanks for watching!
So awesome!
Mine is taking over 12 years...
I envy you so muchj.
All roads will eventually lead to ザ PR!
can you make a video for us ,About: -what did you study and -how many hours you work as a software engineer ,- and what are the best jons in japan (highly needed and best salary and their working hours)
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO
Congratulations bro
Your last video helped me a lot. If you ever visit Osaka then please let me know. I would like to know more about your journey.
Wow thanks for following through! Sure I'll let you know! 😃
@@PhilippeKhin I am an electrical engineer working at Japanese company having the same plan as you have. Hope to see you someday.
You have Instagram?
@@PAUL-mlmr I'm not active at all on Instagram..! I'm more on Twitter 🙂
Very helpful
Glad to hear that!
I am of half Japanese ancestry but live in Hawaii. I am 32 years old and have around $300k in savings. With safe investments paying high yields at the moment and with the USD strong against the yen I can retire in Japan without having a job based on the dividends and interest I earn from my investments which is sufficient to cover my living expenses in Japan. I want to live in Japan but I heard it’s really hard to get a residential visa.
Since you are half japanese do you have a japanese passport? If not are one of your parents a japanese citizen? If so cosnider the "Child of Japanese National Visa"
"The “child of Japanese national visa” is a type of visa granted to the children of Japanese nationals, i.e. non-Japanese applicants who have a Japanese parent or ex-Japanese nationals who have obtained a different nationality and thus have forfeited their Japanese nationality, etc., subject to the fulfillment of certain conditions."
@@Darklovesto Nope. It was my great grandparents who were Japanese and settled in Hawaii. My father would be the 2nd generation of full blooded ethnic Japanese but he was not a Japanese national.
@@jon6309 That seems to be too far back then your only option would be spouse or getting a job there
First things first, figure out your exact ancestry. After you collect all the names, birthdays, birth-places, marriage/divorce dates, and deceased information on all of your ancestry, you should get in touch with the Japanese Consulate in Hawaii. They can explain to you what type of visa you need.
Japan has special Descendant Visa programs for children (NISEI), grandchildren (SANSEI), and great-grandchildren (YONSEI) of Japanese immigrants. And this can be tricky because there were cases when a child of a Japanese immigrant was registered as a Japanese citizen at the Consulate. Dual Citizenship was allowed under Japanese Citizenship Law to descendants of paternal lineage until 1985. (It's why President Fujimori of Peru was a natural-born Japanese citizen, despite being born in Peru to Japanese immigrants.)
If a US/Hawaii-born child was registered in Japan's KOSEKI system at the Consulate, and had birth-right Japanese citizenship, the Japanese government starts the count from that person. In other words, your relationship to the last person who had Japanese citizenship is what determines what generation you are. If your grandfather was a US-born Japanese citizen at birth, you should technically be a grandchild (i.e. SANSEI or 3rd generation) from Japan's legal/visa perspective. If you are recognized as a SANSEI by the Japanese government, you are given special privileges. You should have limited issue in obtaining a Descendant Visa, which allows you to live and work in Japan without any restriction for the rest of your life (assuming you have no criminal history.)
If you are legally 4th generation, it becomes more tricky. There is a YONSEI visa program, and it requires basic language fluency and you need to be under 35 years old. It is designed like a Working Holiday Visa which allows YONSEI to stay in Japan for 5 years, and if/when they're language proficiency meets certain level, they can stay in Japan indefinitely. In the mean time, Japanese language fluency would be paramount if you are serious about living in Japan, in everything from opening a bank account, visiting a hospital, filing tax, or renewing your visa. FYI, we consider N2 to be minimum for working-level fluency.
Hello Sir Philippe first of all Congratulations for your Wonderful Journey here in Japan. I just want to ask what language did you write your reason or 理由書? Japanese or English? And did you write it in your own or by computer? Thank you.
Thanks for your kind words!
I wrote it in Japanese (it's always better I think to have it in Japanese!)
Oh you're the guy that makes the app... How's that going? Is everybody using that for dating or not?
Congratulations on your PR! I got some questions, if ever I would register a startup as a business owner, does my income from my business or startup be included in the Annual Salary? Because the word "Salary" sounds like you have to employed or is this not the case as long as you earn income then pay taxes? Trying to get around the PR Calculator. Great and Insightful video by the way, Thanks!
Thanks for your comment!
Not a legal/financial expert and I haven't gone through the process of receiving income from a side business/startup while not having the PR... so not sure 😅
Won't step into uncharted territory and give you the wrong information, so please kindly consult a proper legal expert...! 🙏
Thanks again for watching!
Good video បង!!! This video is really helpful, Came here cuz of this title "How I Got My JLPT N1 In 2 Years: The Single One Thing That Will Get You There".
Wow! អរគុណច្រើន 😃!
Glad to hear that it’s helpful !
おめでとうございます! Is there a restriction on the number of jobs you had? I mean if you have switched your job for example 3 times in 2 years, could that be a problem? (assuming that I have the enough points anyway)
ありがとうございます！
Hum not really, I had 3 jobs in 4 years too, and it wasn’t an issue.
But I’ve heard some case of rejection because (or maybe not) of job “instability”, the person was in their current last job for only a year, but again, just speculation…! So don’t take my word for it, just hearing rumors 😄
Hello Philippe Khin, thank you so much for your sharing. I also live in Japan and have a plan to start a company. If you do not mind , I would love to meet you and discuss more. Currently, I work in RIKEN and also have HSP visa.. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you
Thanks for your message! I saw your LinkedIn message, will connect there :)
Hello, I wanted to ask: did you have any issues with job titles for the work experience points for your PR application? I have several roles that are like just Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Consultant, etc. Not every role specifies "software engineer" even though that's what I was doing for 10 years.
Hi!
I didn't have any issue, and as long as your job titles fall into what's your current working visa allows, it should be fine!
@@PhilippeKhin Thanks, I was hoping that was the case
Wow 🎉 you're so 😎 cool! Congratulations! I'am inspired by your journey, God bless
Thanks for your kind message! 🙏
Hi there, congratulations and your video is really helpful. I am wondering if I apply high skill visa do I need sponsorship from Japan company or I can engage lawyer in Japan to do it for me while I am in oversea?
The high skill visa is a company-attached sponsored visa, meaning that when you change job to a different company, you need to reapply and points will get reevaluated.
I’m not an expert for oversea application, but if you want to apply from oversea, you’ll need an offer from a company in Japan + having the required points.
If you land in Japan with a normal working visa, you can still apply for the High Skill visa once you’re in Japan.
You need to double check that with your lawyer though, hope that helps!
Hi Thanks for the the Video, did that take exactly 4 months, I am still waiting for it. do you mind telling when you applied exactly and when you got it?
I applied on April 1st and got the acceptance notice on July 25, so yep 4 months!
@@PhilippeKhin wow thanks , me 4 months passed but still waiting
@@uneditedyaswickrama4559 it can take up to 10 months, so nothing to do but wait I guess.
Good luck! Hope you can get it really soon!
@@PhilippeKhin thanks Philippe
I have some questions. Do the visa category needs to be of "highly skilled professional" before we can consider to use the point system? And if so, did you get the highly skilled prof visa first and then wait for 3 years before you applied? Thank you!
No, it doesn't need to be the Highly Skilled Professional visa, it can be any working visa (engineer etc..), just get enough points and keep it for 1 or 3 years (depending on the points) and then you can go to apply for the PR.
A friend of mine also got his PR in 4 years, applying from an engineer working visa 🙂
Since when you apply for the Highly Skilled visa they count and check your points, I wanted to get first that visa just to be sure that there won't be any bad surprise (points that don't get counted as expected...) when applying for the PR!
Hope that helps!
@@PhilippeKhin the table says you need to have points during 1 or 3y before applying but you got new job and got those points. So you actually can get your points after you accomplish requirements?
@@breeze9248 Yep, you need to get those points and keep them for 1 or 3 years.
In my case, I got those points after switching jobs, and keep them for 1 year from the day I joined the company (for my latest job).
Hi, thanks for the video.. Besides the increase on your salary. Where did you get the other points to reach 80? thanks
Thanks for watching!
Other points come from: master degree, years of work experience, age, and JLPT N1
Hope that helps!
@@PhilippeKhin Thanks for the quick response 😀 I could only get points from my degree, work experience and salary.. I'm thinking of taking some exam to get the certification points.. Did you also tried exploring that?
@@Xwing76 I see!
In terms of exam, you mean the national ones, like IT or other expertise domains exams? Not really 😄 because they usually take a lot of preparation, and won’t serve me as much as getting the JLPT, so I’d rather invest in that! 😀
Brother love from india ,, i am planning as a english teacher on work visa and please tell me brother search on my india and teel me what qualifications i needed for english teacher job in japan please
Sir i have a question is IT ans CS is same ??
I'm chasing the points right now . And I also need to upgrade my income. Wish me good luck 😃
All the best !! Good luck 😃
@@PhilippeKhin thank you 😊
What are the advantages of PR and why did it matter for you to get it earlier than expected?
You're not tied to a company anymore, and you can work full-time on your own business without the need to be employed somewhere else, and that alone is worth the PR 🙂
Less restriction on everything. PR is extreme vetting by the Japanese Government. So your credibility dramatically improves within Japanese society. Banks will trust you for mortgage too.
Hi sir.. If you worked and lived in japan for 10yrs. Is it automatic you can get a PR?
Yep, that’s the normal way, and you must live continuously for 10 years according to this official article: www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/930003492.pdf
You sound so busy. How did you fit your time learning Japanese till N1?
I got it during my last year of college right before starting the professional life, fortunately 😄
@@PhilippeKhin Oh wow! Thats a lot of studies. Do share how you cope and study methods.
@@breatheased I've written a blog article about the subject, please feel free to give it a read 😃
www.sewayou.com/blog/how-i-got-my-jlpt-n1-in-2-years-the-single-one-thing-that-will-get-you-there
Is there anything you needed to do after you got your new card?
Hum not really, if you quit your job, just need to inform your local tax offices/city ward that you've quit.
@@PhilippeKhin cheers mate👍
Is the salary calculated before or after tax?
Before tax!
Can you explain me about the points
Here’s a well written blog article about the topic that I recommend!
mailmate.jp/blog/how-to-get-a-permanent-resident-visa-for-japan
Can you please tell me how you studied for the JLPT test to get passed N1 level
I wrote a detailed blog post here: www.sewayou.com/blog/how-i-got-my-jlpt-n1-in-2-years-the-single-one-thing-that-will-get-you-there
Please have a look 🙂
@@PhilippeKhin thank you
hi, i’d love to know how to get a PR in japan as a normal person that doesn’t have much skills as of yet. i’m about to graduate highschool and go to a community college for my associates degree. after i obtain that i would like to move to japan to eventually get my PR. i’m not sure where to start. this is my dream and i will do anything to achieve it.
In that case, a good starting point would be to come to Japan and start working here with a working visa. That requires a company to hire you and sponsor your visa.
Then by « just » staying and working in Japan for 10 years, you can apply for the PR, without having to go through the points system.
That’s one « normal » way to get the Japanese PR!
@@PhilippeKhin should i get done with community college with an associates degree? would that be enough?
I understand everybody's situation is different, and I say this with the best intention. If you wish to thrive in Japan, it would be most helpful if you could (find a scholarship and) attend and graduate from a Japanese university.
People who have degrees from Japanese universities and graduate schools are given special treatment/preference in visa status/length, employment, etc....because they have picked up the necessary language, norms, and mannerism to survive in Japan.
The second group of people I know who fit in Japan quite well (and are in high demand right now) are people who have studied Japanese language, culture, and history in their home countries. The third group would be children and grandchildren of Japanese emigrants, who have some degree of Japanese fluency.
So before permanent residency, it's very important to think about how to secure a valid visa.
@@yo2trader539 i plan on going to college to get a bachelors in IT and eventually working up to a work visa and then go to japan that way? i’ve thought of so many different ways to go but all of them require 110% of concentration and always working towards it
@@yo2trader539 i don’t have much money saved up nor did i get good enough grades to get any kind of scholarship in japan 😅
Nice video... I want to do trade in Japan,, meaning I want to take good's from Japan to Africa..... How can I get a business Visa??
There is something called the Business Manager Visa: www.juridique.jp/visa/business_visa.php
You need to fulfill some requirements to apply for it.
Alternatively, you might want to check (and even reach out to) this out: shibuya-startup-support.jp
Hope that helps!
Many may believe becoming permanent residents in Japan is good, but be cautious in making decisions to live in japan unless there is very good reason, such as family, career related to japan only. Being PR in Japan means that you are becoming tax resident of Japan of all your global income, including any inheritance that you may receive from your hard earned, both movable and immovable. For example once you become PR in Japan, let’s imagine your inheritance is ¥20,000,000 equivalent you need to pay the inheritance tax in Japan which is nearly 50%. Any income you may generate globally, earned interest or capital you have to pay at the progressive tax rate. Think 1000 times before you jump into the den of Japan, non- friendly tax country
Thanks for adding the insightful feedback! It’s indeed not a decision to take lightly!
People neeever state if an 3 years advanced diploma is considered a degree or not, do u know that?
I guess as long as you have the degree proof (diploma certificate etc) it should be fine …!
@@PhilippeKhin Cool! Thank you so much!
I am in Microsoft China now. I want to transfer to Japan.T_T
You are lucky because you found a guarantor
Got mine after 5 years.
Here we go, congrats! 😀
Thanks!
How to get japan residency by investment
You can take a look at the startup visa here: shibuya-startup-support.jp
But it's more when you want to start your own company here, rather than pure investment 🤔
how could my parents come with me
You need to go for the Highly Skilled Professional Visa, English details here (found on the internet) at section 5) : gvalaw.jp/en/8416
@@PhilippeKhin thank you for your expertise. it seems to me the reason for issuing visas to parents is letting them taking care of young kids or pregnant wives rather than being taken care
Philippe San, can you and I schedule a Zoom Call? Thank you, Karen Varrone